[lbo-talk] Life terms for juveniles

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Mon Nov 19 17:56:14 PST 2007


On Nov 19, 2007, at 7:52 PM, Dennis Claxton wrote:


> California has sentenced more juveniles to life in prison without
> possibility of parole than any state in the nation except
> Pennsylvania, according to a new study by the University of San
> Francisco's Center for Law and Global Justice. California currently
> has 227 inmates serving such sentences for crimes committed before
> they turned 18; Pennsylvania has 433.

But Penna has 1/3 the pop of Calif! That means that Penna has something 5 times the per capita rate. I realize the story is about Calif, but what's wrong with the Keystone State?



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